HereI present: Herbert Tolman, “Ancient Persian Lexicon & Texts”, 1908, PART TWO (2).
INTRODUCTION.
Golpayegan (گلپایگان) PERSIA and Khomeyn (خمين) PERSIA are names associated with prehistoric “petroglyphs”. ABOVE are images from the archeological sites of the Persian Golpayegan & Khomeyn “petroglyphs”. They date back to seven-thousand (7,000) years ago.
Linguist Morris Swadesh’ studied similarity of lexicon words in time. The “exponential decay function” of vocabulary in the Morris Swadesh’ method of Glottochronology’ is the decay constant ( λ, lambda) is equal to 19% vocabulary decay per millennium. The function is tabulated BELOW.
| Dating Time | Similarity |
| 0 BP | 100% |
| 500 BP | 86% |
| 1000 BP | 74% |
| 1500 BP | 64% |
| 2000 BP | 55% |
| 2500 BP | 47% |
| 3000 BP | 40% |
| 4000 BP | 30% |
| 5000 BP | 22% |
ABOVE is the Old Persian and New Persian scripts. Archeologist have investigated the relationship between Persian cuneiform’ and Persian petroglyphs hoping to understand the ideas before the development of writing.
